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Contents
4 President’s Message
Safety Nets: Your Help is Needed
Terence Joiner, MD
6 Dedication & What to Look For in This Issue of the Bulletin
by Richard E. Burney, MD
8 Editor-at-Large: Why does it feel as if WCMS and MSMS are in a survival contest?
by Richard E. Burney, MD
12 Medical Student Reflections
Finding a Home in Med School
by Alangoya Tezel, M2
University of Michigan Medical School
Reflections on Entering the Second Year of Med School by Jesper Ke, M2
University of Michigan Medical School
14 Share Your Story: Going to The Cottage
by Richard E. Burney, MD
20 WCMS Resolutions and Disposition at 2021 House of Delegates
26 2021-2022 Legislator Guide
28 Advocacy Highlight: Thank You Letter
to Representative Brenda Lawrence
30 Membership News
Welcome New and Returning Members Leadership Opportunities at WCMS Renew Your 2021 Membership
WCMS 2021 Virtual Legislative Committee Meeting Schedule
34 Say Yes! COVID Test Press Release
36 MSMS/WCMS Membership Application
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W.C.M.S. BULLETIN
FALL 2021 Volume 73 • Number 3
Editor
Richard E. Burney, MD
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
Officers
Terence Joiner, MD.................................................... President John Hopper, MD.............................................. President-Elect Barbara A. Threatt, MD............................................. Secretary Martha L. Gray, MD ................................................... Treasurer
Executive Council Members
John E. Billi, MD
Sandro K. Cinti, MD
Evelyn Eccles, MD
Larry Junck, MD
Jesper Ke, M1
Charles F. Koopmann, Jr., MD Juan Marquez, MD, MPH William J. Meurer, MD
James C. Mitchiner, MD, MPH Joseph Nnodim, MD, PhD
Fred E. Patterson, MD Robert Sain, MD
David Share, MD, MPH Evangeline J. Spindler, MD Sharon Swindell, MD James Szocik, MD Bradley Uren, MD
Jerry Walden, MD Alon Weizer, MD
MSMS Board of Directors from Region 3 (Livingston, Lenawee, Monroe, and Washtenaw)
Larry Junck, MD - Region 3 Director Bradley Uren, MD - Region 3 Director
Paul Harkaway, MD - Physician Organization Leader Gunjan Malhotra, MD - Resident & Fellow Section Representative
Washtenaw Delegates to MSMS HOD
Richard Burney, MD Evelyn Eccles, MD Cheryl Farmer, MD Terence Joiner, MD Charles Koopmann, MD Angela Kuznia, MD, MPH Anna Laucis, MD
James Mitchiner, MD, MPH Joseph Nnodim, MD, PhD Robert Sain, MD
James Szocik, MD
Barbara Threatt, MD Jerry Walden, MD
Executive Director
Angie Kemppainen, CAE
Washtenaw County Medical Society
5 Research Drive, Suite C, Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Phone: (734) 668-6241
E-mail: wcms@wcms-mi.org www.wcms-mi.org
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